New Delhi, India: Latest high resolution satellite imageries indicated that the actual areas in India growing poppy for manufacturing of illicit drugs like heroin, morphine may be six times more than previously estimated.
The Advanced Data Processing Research Institute (ADRIN) had acquired high resolution multispectral data for a portion of West Bengal, which was analysed. So far, all estimates were based on medium resolution imagery.
The acreage estimates for ten states - Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Karnataka, J&K, Bihar, Orissa and Himachal Pradesh - for the years 2008-09, 2009-10, and 2010-11 were estimated at 14,200, 10,851 and 15,598 acre respectively. These figures depicted a drastic rise when high resolution imagery was used.
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